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BALLOT UPDATE
Nov 8th, 2010 by admin
Understandably many of you are becoming increasingly frustrated with the delay in the ballot on the settlement document. For the last week, the issues delaying the ballot have been purely legal. There were lists to agree between Unite and BA of the names of all the crew who are in process or have been sanctioned or dismissed (one case only emerged on Friday, the victim having conducted his own defence not wishing to bother BASSA because he thought we were busy enough). This was for the purpose of any future arbitration. There was also the major issue of both sides agreeing exactly what legal cases would be conceded, and discontinued through the courts. It would appear Unite and BA agreed these on Friday, and Saturday lunchtime the senior BASSA reps saw the appendix containing the litigation details for the first time.
It would be fair to say all the reps now have major concerns with some of the cases that would have to be conceded should this deal be accepted by crew. Officially we are supposed to be “recommending” this deal, at least so all of you
have the democratic right to vote on it. Based on what we have just received, most, or all of us, will choke on the word recommend.
What we have decided to do is to call an emergency meeting of the available senior reps within the next 48 hours to discuss what we have just received. We are also asking Unite to delay sending out the ballot till we have met.
Apologies therefore for a couple of days further delay. We hope you will understand that the explanations to the
contents of the document have to be accurate, and that we have to be totally honest with you, with what the litigation
will mean - we also need to clarify some of the legal points. Once we have met we will update you.